Coldiretti, Chinese honey destroys the Italian hive - Agricultural World. Coldiretti reports this on the occasion of Apimell, an international market exhibition specialized in the beekeeping sector.
In 2023 - the agricultural organization notes - over 25 million kilos of foreign honey arrived in Italy compared to a national production estimated at 22million kilos. The average price of the product imported from non-EU countries was 2.14 euros per kilo. The greatest number in absolute value of suspicious consignments came from China (66 out of 89)